CASE - The prosecution says a fatally wounded Scott Davis, inset, was picked up in Gas Lane by a taxi driver and taken to hospital after the knife attack in Bridge Street

Security camera footage of a knife attack in which a man was killed was shown yesterday to a jury.

Cameras at The Oracle captured a 32-second fight last July and the prosecution says the film shows Kevin Alvarado repeatedly stabbing Reading man Scott Davis during a brawl in Bridge Street.

Alvarado, 19, has already pleaded guilty to murder and the prosecution says the video also shows two of his friends, Craig Stevenson and John Hamilton attacking 25-year-old Mr Davis. Stevenson and Hamilton, both 18, deny murder and violent disorder.

However Peter Kyte, QC, prosecuting, said they were guilty because they were aiding Alvarado's brutal attack.

"It is plain to you that central to your

consideration is going to be the video," he told the jury. "It's the best evidence of what takes place.

"The prosecution say both of these young men were, in effect, involved in a three-pronged attack against Scott Davis. From the outset they were providing assistance, help and encouragement to the knifeman."

The prosecution said security staff at The Oracle saw the beginning of the fight and grabbed a video cassette to record the fatal blows as Mr Davis was stabbed nine times, including once in the heart.

Mr Kyte said a knife is seen glinting in Alvarado's right hand as he continually hits the body of Mr Davis outside the Holy Brook car park at The Oracle.

Mr Davis, of Woodley, had been in a fight with Alvarado in the Purple Turtle and both men and their friends had been kicked out, Mr Kyte told the jury at Kingston Crown Court in the opening day of the trial yesterday. The groups came across each other in Bridge Street and the fight started again.

Hamilton, in the words of Mr Kyte, "remains to the bitter end" as he helped Alvarado and felled Mr Davis' friend Ian Tegg with a "hay-maker" as he came to his rescue. The fatally wounded Mr Davis finally goes out of view of the camera into Gas Lane, where he was picked up by taxi driver Murray Lewis and taken to hospital, Mr Kyte said.

He went on to say that Alvarado was seen flicking the 6cm butterfly knife as he began to walk away then The Oracle cameras tracked Alvarado, Stevenson, Hamilton and a friend, Jason Franks, as they jogged along the Riverside. They were arrested separately by police around the Broad Street end of Gun Street.

Alvarado, of Star Lane, Caversham,

Mr Kyte said, tried to hide the butterfly knife in his bottom. In police interview Stevenson, of City Road, Tilehurst, and Hamilton, of Robin Way, Tilehurst, denied knowing Alvarado had a knife or that Mr Davis had been stabbed.